A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You’re always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there’s the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
If you’re trying to work the art game, if you’re like Andy Warhol or something, then you’re in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
Please don’t throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.
Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else’s schedule. They can come and go as they please.
All the time, even before we had mainstreamed, it was like we were never really Christians because of the way we looked. Or, you know, we were never Christian enough, or we’re too Christian at times. You can’t please people.
I hate the Chinese government. If you do not want to embrace North Korean defectors in your country, I understand. But we have a country where we can seek asylum. So please, let us freely pass through. Why are you doing your best to try and catch defectors?
I really love ‘Fleabag.’ I’ve been harassing my agents, like, ‘Can you please get me a meeting with Phoebe Waller-Bridge?’ I just want to talk to her.
I know I’m not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don’t let that affect any of my decisions.
Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word ‘Thatcher’ and ‘Thatcherism,’ which continues until this day.
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you’re talking about.
I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, ‘izvinite pozhaluista.’ That’s, ‘excuse me please, excuse me please.’ Let’s reset things. That’s not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.
So many use dad’s name, saying ‘Johnny Cash would not like this’ or ‘Johnny Cash would do this’ or ‘Johnny Cash would vote for… ‘ Please, let his actions speak for who he was: A simple, loving man who never supported hate or bigotry. He was non-political, and a patriot with no public political party affiliation.
I will never censor myself to please anyone.
I came up with the album name ‘Please Don’t Be Dead’ because I felt like we’d lost our way as a society – and I know what happens when you chase the wrong things. It’s the story of my life.
I’ve heard some people say that I’m selling out, but I’m not. If I hadn’t done ‘Black Radio’, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn’t be honest with myself; I’d be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.
I get love from fans in a big enough dosage that it acts as a shield, and I would not sacrifice that love in order to please the industry.
I have respect for anyone who’s going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That’s great. But it’s not what entertains me.
I’m absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.
If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.
When I was young, I just tried to please everybody.
I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
I’m getting money over here. I’m good, I’m young, I’m finally in a position to feed my family; please don’t take that away from me.
I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don’t care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I’m trying to please are myself and my fans, because they’re the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.
We feel free… Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, ‘Aid, aid, please.’
Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won’t satisfy anyone.
I get a lot – a lot – of requests to make things that are like Lady Gaga. Like, ‘I’m a 9-year-old girl in Wisconsin. Please dress me like Lady Gaga. How much would this cost?’
There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won’t get in. I don’t say, ‘Do you know who I am?’, but sometimes I’m with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, ‘Oh, please don’t shame me!’.
I don’t think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
You’ve just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can’t please all the people all the time. You’ve got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as ‘consumers.’ OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.
After my episode of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, ‘I discovered her,’ but I was like ‘Hold up. Please. I’m from ‘Next Friday.’ Everybody knows me!’
Grownups have to say ‘please,’ too.
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I’m going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn’t necessarily cater to most of them.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
At every meeting, I mention that if I am doing something personally that gets in the way of progress for the company – or something needs to change – please come and tell me.
For people to come to you and say, ‘Would you like to be a part of our show?’ after years of ‘Please tell me I’m good enough,’… I can’t tell you how wonderful it feels.
Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.
Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.
I’ve never been desperate to please my father.
If you like it, let it be, and if you don’t please do the same.
I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they’re onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don’t they?
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy’s girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he’d walk past my room and I was listening to those records.
The only reason I’m ever in character as ‘Larry The Cable Guy’ is because that’s what I’m hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired ‘Larry The Cable Guy’ to be ‘Larry The Cable Guy.’ When I do my shows, I’m ‘Larry The Cable Guy.’ When I do Jay Leno, it’s: ‘Please welcome ‘Larry The Cable Guy.’
You can’t please everyone in life, which is especially true for great stars.
Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is.
I just like hanging out, really. I’m not too hard to please.
